Fidelma Healy Eames (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I certainly will.

I agree with Senator Colm Burke. I met the GPs this morning. The contract for free GP care for those under six is flawed and unworkable. All of the GPs I met this morning are not signing up to it. Is that what we want? It could take six weeks or two months for one's child under six to be seen because there will be a clustering of GPs in certain locations who may sign up to it.

There is one other really serious aspect, and I ask the Leader to bring the Minister of State for Health, Deputy Alex White, or the Minister for Health, Deputy Reilly, in here to discuss it.

It is that with this contract, the Health Service Executive, HSE, is enforcing the release of patient records without the patient's consent. Give it up. Patient consent is critical and protecting the patient is at the core of the professionalism of any doctor. Moreover, the HSE is not even giving the doctor a reason it might seek those records. This is corporate bullying in the extreme and is unacceptable. Therefore, I ask the Leader to bring the Minister into the House for a debate on this issue.